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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus"

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MORE QUOTES BY Thomas Carlyle

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men”

Thomas Carlyle

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“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall”

“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder”

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